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...agree that Americans need to increase their level of activity. On this there is a broad consensus. We saw food industry groups such as Pepsi and McDonald?s supporting activity programs, giving away step counters, etc. We?ve heard about government efforts: HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson?s ?Small Steps? idea to promote activity and the very entertaining public service ads his department has created, showing lost love handles near the staircase and lost double-chins in the vegetable aisle. We heard about the CDC?s VERB campaign promoting activity for kids and were moved by the sentiments of Lynn Swann...
Opponents make three broad arguments, the simplest of which concerns radiation. In its just-published position paper on whole-body scanning, the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine estimates that subjects receive between 10-20 millisieverts of radiation per scan - a "non-trivial" dose, especially if the person has regular scans. (Nuclear facility workers are limited to an annual radiation dose of 30-50 mSv.) N.S.W. licensing laws require operators to explain to patients that "persons under the age of 50 years are more at risk of developing cancers as a result of the procedure...
...sassy female police officer, with Jun in mind. The script?and Jun's likely involvement?caught the attention of Kong, who was looking for a way into South Korea's ballooning film industry, which now captures more than 50% of the country's box office. Kong thought that a broad South Korean comedy like Windstruck, with an international star like Jun, had a chance to be a pan-Asian success. "Korea is not like Japan," separate from the rest of the region, he says. "Its culture is closer to China, closer to the rest of Asia...
...Sadr seems almost to be courting death at U.S. hands, knowing that it, more than anything else, would spark a broad Shi'ite insurgency. His followers call him "the living shahid," or martyr, according to Fatah al-Sheikh, editor of the pro--al-Sadr newspaper Ishraqatal Sadr. If the Americans ever do kill al-Sadr, al-Sheikh says, they will be faced with a "revolution that will never end." Al-Sadr's supporters, he adds, "will kill all Americans, civilians or otherwise...
Spitzer's view enjoys broad support among institutional shareholders. "Excessive executive pay undermines the very principles of free enterprise," says Phil Angelides, the California state treasurer and a board member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System. He endorses recent efforts to rein in those eye-popping stock-option grants but notes that CEOs still seem to find a way to get richer at their employer's expense. Grants of restricted stock have in some cases replaced the value of options for executives. Retirement benefits and deferred-compensation packages can also amount to millions of dollars and yet remain relatively...